课文内容：
On Wednesday evening, we went to the TownHall. It was the last day of the year and a largecrowd of people had gathered under the TownHall clock. It would strike twelve in twentyminutes' time. Fifteen minutes passed and then, atfive to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minutehand did not move. We waited and waited, butnothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted, It'stwo minutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!' I looked at my watch. It was true. The bigclock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment everybody began to laugh and sing.
本文语法：介词与时间搭配
语法归纳：介词on, in, at, by, until/till, during与时间搭配的正确用法：
on 多用于表示某天或节日等相对特定的时间前
in 多用在年、月、季度等一段时间前
at 多用在具体的点或短暂时间前
by 多用于表示“在……之前”、“直到……时候”
during 经常表示在某一特定时间内
until/till 意为“直到”
精讲笔记：
1.On Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hall.
在星期三的晚上，我们去了市政厅。
语言点 the Town Hall=the City Hall市政厅
hall意为“大厅，大堂;过道，走廊”：school hall礼堂;meeting hall会议厅;exhibition hall展览厅;theGreat Hall of the People人民大会堂
2.It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered underthe Town Hall clock.
这是一年的最后一天了，很多人都自发地聚集在市政厅的钟下。
语言点 last的常用意义：
1)上一个：last year去年;last month上个月;last summer去年夏天
2)(=final)最后的：on the last/final day of summer vacaion在暑假的最后一天
3.It would strike twelve in twenty minutes' time.
再过20分钟，大钟将敲响12下。
语言点1 "in+一段时间"可表示“一段时间之内”;也可用于表示“一段时间之后”，多用于将来时。
1)在……内：The bird covered the distance in 3 minutes.这只鸽子只用了3分钟就飞越了这段距离。
2)在……之后(多与将来时连用)：I will come back in 5 days.我将在5天后回来。
语言点2 would在此处表示过去将来时。
